Portable building



Feb. 25, 1930. L. w. RAY 1,748,794

PORTABLE BUILDING Filed June 4, 1928 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 in; L

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L. W. RAY PORTABLE BUILiJING Filed June 4, 1928 4 Sheets-Sheet 3 Feb. 25, 1930. L, w RAY 1,748,794

PORTABLE BUILDING I Filed June 4, 1928 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 6 //Z no I d EA'ZTOR ATTORNEY Patented Feb. 25,1930

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7 A eonroaarron or KANSAS PORTABLE BUILDING Application filed June 4, 1928. Serial No. 282,832.

. This invention relates to portable buildings and the primary object is to provide a building which may be fabricated at the factory or plant then shipped to its proper destination and erected in a convenient manner.

It is not always possible to erect portable buildings with the door or windows facing in any particular direction so I have provided a structure adapted,-by interchanging the parts, to have the doors and windows facing the street irrespective of the corner of a street intersection on which the building is erected. The same building may be erected in the middle of the block by interchanging the parts so that any one building previously erected on any one corner can be knocked down and re-erected on any, other corner with the door and windows facing the street and all this can be done without requironly to interchange certain units in thestructure and all of this'will. be clearly apparent 'e by reference to the following description in connection with the accompanying drawings inwhich: Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the skeleton building structure before the walls are put on, showing the outlet openings adapted to be at one corner of the building;

Fig. 2 is a similar "ew showing the outlet openings arranged at the alining opposite corner of the building.

Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic view of the build--v ing shown in Fig. 1, illustrating the position of the door opening when the building is erected on the southeast corner or on the northwest corner with the length'of the lot running north and south and the door in the ing on a lot'on the northeast corner or southwest corner where the length of the lot is noz'lth and south with entrance door on front en 4 Fig. 7 is a front elevation of the skeleton building shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 8 is a side view of the same facing street.

Fig.- 9 is a rear end elevation of the building, shown in Fig. 1.

Fig.10 is a side elevational view of the building opposite to Fig. 8.

Fig. llis. a perspective View of the par? tition for dividing the main portion of the.

building from the storage room.

Fig. 12 isa similar view showing a modified formgof partition arrangement. V

Fig. 13 is a detail view of two of the structural shapes for framing in the window 20 ing any additional parts, it being necessary f am Fig. 14 is a view of one of the window frames and Fig. 15 shows portions of two of the structural shapes to be fastened together.

At the factory or plant,,, the building is constructed of four .corner units 1, 2, 3 and 4, the corner which consists of the right angular top rail 5 and the lower right angular rail 6 connected by a corner post 7. The corner post is connected to the rails 5, and 6, by

gussets 8,9, 10 and 11. The front end of the corner unit is provided with studding members 12 and 12'. The side of the unit, 1, is provided with studding verticals 13 and 14 which cooperate with the spaced studding 15, and 16 to"' form a door opening, 17, with a transom formed by cross bars 17 and 18 and the ends of the side members of the top and bottom right angular rails 5'and 6 are provided with a studding member 19, fastened thereto by a gusset, 20 to which the removable side panels (to be hereinafter-"referred to) may be secured. The corner 2, consists of the right angular top and bottom rails-21 and 22 connected by thecorner studding 23 thru t medium of gussets 24, 25, 26, and 27 Vertica studding 28 connects the rails 21 and 22 and on the side are studding members 29 and 30, the latter being in spaced relation to provide a door opening 31. and connected by cross bars 32 and 38 to form a transom. A studding and connecting member 34, connects the free end of the side of the right angle rails 21 and 22 by gussets 35 and 36, the member 34 being attachable to one of the removable panels (to be referred to hereinafter). The corner 3 consists of the top and bottom rails 37 and 38, which are also right afigulan 'n that each has two legs, one at right anglestotheoth er, the rails 37 and 38 at their angles or corners being cgnnected to a corner studding member 39 thrulhe medium of the gussets 40, The side rails of the corner member 3 have spaced studding members 43 and 43 connected by cross bars 44 and 45 and vertical member 46, to provide a window. Studding 47 and a connecting studding member 48 are fastened to the rails 37 and 38 by the gussets 49 and 50.

The corner unit 4 has right angular rails 51 and 52 connected by a corner member 53 the cross rails or posts and the gussets 54, 55, 56'and 57. The end leg of the corner 4, is also provided with studding 58 (see Fig. 9). The side legs of the members 51 and 52 are provided with studdings 59 and 60, spaced apart to provide a window by the rails 61 and 62, which rails are removable so that the window shown in Fig. 8 may be interchanged with the window shown in Fig. '10, it being understood that are removably secured to the'studding. The side legs of the rails 51 and 52 also have studdings 61 and 62, the latter are secured by the gussets 63 and 64.

In Fig. 13, I have shown the studding 19 and the studding 48 in spaced relation so that the removable side 65 and 66 can be removably fastened between them by bolts or other suitale fastening devices.

In Fig. 14, I have shown one of the removable sides, 66 consisting of two vertical rails 67 and'68 connected by the top and bottom rails 69 and 70 and by the cross pieces 71 and 72 toform a window opening 73.

The short studding pieces 7 4 and 7 5 connecting the members 70 and 72 provide studding for the wall'of the building. A cross piece 76 is connected to the pieces 70 and 71 between the members 69 and 70 to provide spaces 77 and 78 for signs, decorations, illuminating panels or the like and by referring to Figures 13a-nd 14, it will be apparent thatthe side panel 66 can be connected to the members 19 and 48 by bolts or other suitable means and that it can be removed for the substitution'of the side panel 65, which is of the same size.-

The side panel has a top rail 79, and a bottom rail 80 connected by the end studdings 81 and 82 and the intermediate studdings 83 and 84 with cross pieces-85,86 and 87 to form a frame onto which a Wall may be attached.

41, 42 and 42rsrails 37, 38, 51 and-52,

It is to be understood that the side panel 66 will always be on the-street side of'the building and that the side panel 65 will be on, the OE side of the building. Further, that the corner members 1 and 2 will be on the front side of the building and the members 3 and 4 will be on the rear end of the and it consists of the top rail 93, the bottom rail 95, the" removable studding 96, the cross pieces 97 and 98to form a door opening 99 and the'transom 100, (Fig. 1) and the studding 101 connected in Fig. 1 to the studding 28 by the cross pieces 102 and 103 to form a window 104, and the additional cross piece 105, which may. assist piece 102 to form an air space, a sign space or which may hold awall to close a space above 102.

The studding 96 is removably secured to the pieces 94 and 95 and it may be transposed over to the left side of the piece 101, to be I used in connection with the pieces 97 and 98 and the studding 28 to form a door opening on the left side of the front of the building, in which eventthe pieces 102, 103 and 105 will connect the studding 101 and the studding 8 to forma window 104, on the right hand side of the front of the building; so in that event the opening 31, will constitute a I door opening and the window shown in Fig.

the window I 8 will be interchangeable with shown in Fig. 10.

The two ends of the building will be connected to the lateral rails of the respective corners by connectors 106 and 107-but the studding for the interchangeable side members 65 and 66 will be bolted to the studding.

on the side of the end members.

The frame work therefore consists of four corner units, two interchangeable side units,

and two interchangeable end units so-that l the building can be erected for the middle of .the block or for any four corners or a street intersection, irrespective of whether or not the. lots run north and south or east and west. The building of course, will be provided with sleepers 107 on which a suitable floor 108 may be laid and the upper portion of the" members may be tied in by tie members 109 and if desired a loft may be built in the building and ofcourse a wall and roof will be provided. I may desire to divide the building into interchangeable partition sections.

These are shown in Figs. 11 and 12. One section consists of two off-set panels 110 and 111 connected by a short intersection panel 112 at a-right' angle to the panels 110 and 111. This panel will beprovided 'with. a door, 113. The section consisting of the members 110, 111 and 112 may cooperate with the section consisting of the inverted L shape panel 114, which will provide a door opening, 115, and a counter 116, may be erected with suitable stools 117, in front thereof, for the convenience of the customers.

By referring to Figures 11 and 12, it will be seen that by interchanging the panels consisting of the members 110, 111 and 112 with the panel 114, the door opening 115 can be shifted from the right to the left or vice versa.

It willbe clearly apparent from the foregoing that the building can have its units erected at the plant or factory and erected to suit any condition encountered. I do not wish to be limited to all of the details of the construction shown for, obviously, changes in form, proportion and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the in- Vention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters-Patent is 1. A portable building structure comprising four corner units, diagonal corner units being duplicates, interchangeable side walls, means for connecting the interchangeable side walls with the corner units, interchangeable front and back walls and means for connecting the front and back walls to the corner unit's.

2. A portable building structure comprising four corner units, interchangeable side walls co-operating with the corner units, interchangeable frontand back walls co-operating with the corner units and a removable studding carried by the front wall, locatable in one position to complete a door opening formedby the studding and one of the corner units and locatable at another position to complete a door opening formed by the studding and another corner unit.

3. A portable building structure comprising four corner units, each of which consists of top and bottom rails, corner rails and studding connecting the top and bottom rails, the

corner units at diagonal .points of the building being duplicates so that there are two pairs of duplicate corner units, interchangeable removable side walls connected to the corner units, interchangeable removable end walls connected to the corner units and interchangeable partition sections inside the build- 5 ing connected to the side walls.

I aflix my signature.

LOYD W. RAY.

In testimony whereof 

